BRISCOE, John Potter (1848-1926)
Bolton 1866; CL Nottingham 1869-1916
He was a county historian and the father of Walter Alwyn Briscoe

b. 20.7.1848 Lever Bridge, Bolton
sub-librarian Bolton 1866-69
FRHS
vice-pres. of LA
author of many papers
(YB 1897, 177)

Alistair Black, ‘Briscoe, John Potter (1848–1926)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59732, accessed 9 Sept 2008]